Davis v. Patton
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Talbot county. This was an action of replevin, brought in the Circuit Court for Caroline county, on the 5th of November 1858, by the appellants, to recover from the appellee three negro boys, the children of a negro woman, Caroline Olíase.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Talbot county. This was an action of replevin, brought in the Circuit Court for Caroline county, on the 5th of November 1858, by the appellants, to recover from the appellee three negro boys, the children of a negro woman, Caroline Olíase. The defendant pleaded “non cepit, property in the defendant and property in a stranger.” 1st Exception.—-At the trial, (the case having been previously removed, at the suggestion of the plaintiffs, to the Circuit Court for Talbot county,) the plaintiffs first offered in evidence the inventory of William H. Cheizum,…
1Opinion of the Court
Goldsborough, J.,
delivered the ojiinion of this Court:
William II. Cheizum, late of Talbot county, died in the year 1843, intestate, leaving, besides other personal property, certain negro slaves, to be distributed amongst his mother, brothers and sisters, who were his legal representatives.
Sarah B. Davis, one of the appellants, and one of the sisters of the deceased, had, prior to her brother’s death, intermarried with John Bowens.
In the final distribution of the negroes, negro Caroline Chase was allotted to John Bowens, husband of Sarah B. Bowens, he paying to the mother of the deceased…
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